Dan Hammer Explained

Dan Hammer
Institution:University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Field:Environmental economics
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 2017), Swarthmore College (BA, 2007)

Dan Hammer is an environmental economist and winner of both the inaugural Pritzker Award and the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni at UC Berkeley.[1] He is a National Geographic Fellow, and served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in the Obama Administration.[2] Hammer was the Presidential Innovation Fellow that released the first API listing for NASA, amounting to the data infrastructure design for the space agency's public data.[3] In addition, prior to NASA, Hammer was the Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he helped re-launch Global Forest Watch, an open-source project to monitor deforestation.[4]

Notable work

Hammer was a third-round Presidential Innovation Fellow, working with the NASA Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology to design software infrastructure to access the agency's open data.[5] Prior to working at NASA and with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he wrote the open-source algorithms that served as the initial data set for the Global Forest Watch reboot, and directed the Data Lab at the World Resources Institute.[6] He has published a series of peer-reviewed articles about environmental policy and conservation, which are widely cited in the popular press on issues of climate change and forest/habitat conservation.[7] Hammer was a Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Faculty at Georgetown University, and works with Steve McCormick (former CEO of The Nature Conservancy) on web service infrastructure for environmental information.[8]

Hammer's recent work with satellite imagery has been used to monitor territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the Xinjiang re-education camps, and the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.[9]

Early work and education

Hammer was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and traveled to Polynesia to build and race outrigger canoes.[10] He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2007 with high honors in mathematics and economics, where he was a Lang Opportunity Scholar to support community firefighters in Bolivia.[11] Hammer subsequently worked as the research assistant to the current Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, Arvind Subramanian, and the President of the Center for Global Development, Nancy Birdsall.[12] Hammer received his PhD in environmental economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Notes and References

  1. News: UCLA presents inaugural Pritzker Award to environmental economist Dan Hammer. Colgan. David. 9 November 2017. UCLA Newsroom. 11 November 2017. Los Angeles, California, United States.
    - News: Dan Hammer Wins Inaugural Pritzker Award. 11 November 2017. Presidential Innovation Foundation News. 14 November 2017.
    - News: A conversation with the Pritzker Genius Award winner. Pritzker. Tony. 9 November 2017. UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. 14 November 2017.
    - Web site: Achievement Awards. 11 April 2019.
  2. Web site: OSTP Leadership and Staff. 24 February 2017.
    - Web site: National Geographic Explorers. National Geographic. 3 January 2019.
  3. Putting women at the controls at NASA. Benderly. Beryl. 13 July 2015. Science. 7 November 2015.
    - News: Ph.D. on hold, White House fellow's stars align at NASA. Bergman. Barry. 4 December 2014. Berkeley News. 7 November 2015.
    - Web site: Meet the Fellows. 8 November 2015. Presidential Innovation Fellows.
    - News: NASA Explores New World Of Open Data. Carr. David. 12 November 2014. InformationWeek. 8 November 2015.
  4. Web site: Dan Hammer World Resources Institute. 2013-08-07. 24 February 2017.
    - Google Earth Engine Brings Big Data to Environmental Activism. Strickland. Eliza. 16 April 2014. IEEE Spectrum.
    - Big Data and Environmental Sustainability. Keeso. Alan. December 2014. Smith School Working Paper Series. 7 November 2015. Oxford University. 14. 4. https://web.archive.org/web/20151106083246/http://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/library/working-papers/workingpaper%2014-04.pdf. 6 November 2015. dead.
    - Global Forest Watch. 2013. Lighthouse Case Study. 7 November 2015. Global Solutions Network.
  5. News: NASA to put the stars in your hands with coming-soon-now API portal. Sharwood. Simon. 15 April 2015. The Register. 7 November 2015.
    - News: La NASA va ouvrir ses données via un portail d'API. Chavanne. Yannick. 16 April 2015. ICTjournal. 8 November 2015.
    - News: 尋找外星人大家一起來，NASA超多太空探測資料大開放. Jianxing. Li. 22 April 2015. iThome. 8 November 2015.
    - News: NASA to release new API catalog. Carter. Eric. 14 April 2015. Programmable Web. 7 November 2015.
    - News: NASA stelt API's beschikbaar voor gebruik sterrendata. Shoemaker. Rene. 15 April 2015. Webwereld. 8 November 2015.
  6. Web site: forma-clj. 11 November 2015. GitHub. World Resources Institute. Hammer. Dan. code repository. Kraft. Robin. Ritchie. Steele. Petrovics. Sam. Aaron. David. 2012. 2.
    - News: Ученые будут следить за состоянием лесов по Google Earth. Smirnov. Evgeny. 14 April 2014. CNews. 8 November 2015.
  7. Alerts of forest disturbance from MODIS imagery. Hammer. Dan. December 2014. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 10.1016/j.jag.2014.04.011. 1–9. Kraft. Robin. David. Wheeler. 33. 2014IJAEO..33....1H.
    - Economic dynamics and forest clearing: A spatial econometric analysis for Indonesia. Wheeler. David. January 2013. Ecological Economics. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.11.005. Hammer. Dan. Kraft. Dasgupta. Blankespoor. Robin. Susmita. Brian. 3. 85. 85–96. 2013EcoEc..85...85W .
    - Web site: 50 Data Science Gurus (and 10 Organizations) You Must Follow On Twitter. 18 August 2014. 10 November 2015. Automated Insights.
    - News: The obvious relationship between climate and family planning — and why we don't talk about it. Tarico. Valerie. 24 September 2014. Grist. 10 November 2015.
    - News: The Biggest Bang for the Climate-Change Buck?. 11 November 2010. 10 November 2015. Freakonomics. Levitt. Steven. Dubner. Stephen.
    - News: License to Kill. 11 November 2013. Greenpeace International. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2013.
  8. Web site: Georgetown University Course Listing. 24 February 2017.
    - Web site: Berkeley Institute for Data Science. 2015. 16 November 2015. Berkeley Institute for Data Science. University of California, Berkeley.
    - News: Earth Genome aims to help companies sequence nature's Big Data. Hepler. Lauren. 1 March 2016. GreenBiz. 11 March 2016.
    - News: Can you put a price on nature? A Californian nonprofit thinks it can. O'Connor. Mary Catharine. 13 March 2016. The Guardian. 13 March 2016.
    - News: Bay Area data scientist launching environmental storytelling app with access to global satellite images. Leman. Jennifer. 14 June 2018. The Mercury News. 14 October 2018.
  9. News: Backstory: Using satellites to count buildings in South China Sea. Torode. Greg. 31 May 2018. Reuters. 14 October 2018.
    - News: Big Picture: Flying by Fire. 1 May 2018. Breakthroughs. 14 October 2018.
    - News: Five of the best California wildfire pictures from space. Colgan. David. 20 December 2017. Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. 14 October 2018.
    - Web site: Tracking China's Muslim Gulag. Hirschberg. Peter. Scarr. Simon. 29 November 2018. Reuters Investigates. 3 January 2019.
  10. News: People and Places. Siegel. Stephanie. 9 May 2007. The Gazette. 7 November 2015.
    - News: Dan Hammer '07 Wins Watson Fellowship. 29 May 2007. Swarthmore News. 7 November 2015.
    - Web site: Adventures of a Boat Ranger. 18 January 2008. 7 November 2015. Feature Stories Archive. Swarthmore College. Hammer. Dan.
  11. News: 5 sophomores win Lang Opportunity Scholarships. 30 November 2004. The Daily Gazette. 8 November 2015. Swarthmore College.
  12. Identifying a fair deal on climate change. Birdsall. Nancy. 14 September 2009. Vox EU. 7 November 2015. Subramanian. Arvind. Hammer. Dan.
    - Book: Birdsall, Nancy. Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World. World Bank Publications. 2010. 9780821381816. 157. The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries. Kanbur. Ravi. Spence. Michael.

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